- TV, Radio, Web
- May 28, 2022, 05:00
Chronicler of contemporary society explains battle for dominance over conflicting values
- Culture
- May 7, 2022, 07:00
Clickbait headlines are usually more subtle these days, but their effect may be more insidious
- Culture
- April 30, 2022, 07:00
It would be a shame if the National Gallery Aramark controversy failed to prompt debate
- Culture
- April 23, 2022, 07:00
News last week that the streamer lost subscribers for the first time in a decade resulted in a €50 billion drop in the company’s v(...)
- Culture
- April 9, 2022, 07:00
Move to put Channel 4 up for sale symptomatic of something deeply rotten in British politics
- Culture
- April 2, 2022, 07:00
Meta has embraced tactics developed in the money-soaked cesspool of American partisan politics, whipping up fear wherever it can
- Culture
- March 26, 2022, 07:00
For years Tommaso Debenedetti has been using Twitter to hoodwink the media with fake stories
- Culture
- March 12, 2022, 07:00
Any system of basic income for artists must give them dignity and breathing space
- Culture
- March 5, 2022, 07:00
Despite moral imperative to support Ukraine, disinformation is never a one-way street
- Culture
- February 26, 2022, 07:00
A production of Into the Woods in Belfast was suspended because of bad audience behaviour
- Culture
- February 19, 2022, 07:00
Rosemary Jenkinson's article may have offended some of her fellow writers. So what?
- Culture
- February 12, 2022, 07:00
For Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends the crew, like many others, went North
- Stage
- February 5, 2022, 07:00
The first in-person Irish Times Theatre Awards since 2019 will be a celebration of resilience
- Culture
- January 28, 2022, 13:00
Singer remains an admirable contrarian, but hasn’t troubled the charts in decades
- Culture
- January 22, 2022, 07:00
The band’s awareness of their own ridiculousness has long been part of their appeal
- Culture
- January 15, 2022, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: The disgraced journalist’s book Stolen Focus is light on scientific rigour
- Culture
- December 18, 2021, 07:00
A scornful profile of Succession’s Jeremy Strong reminds personality is built on flaws
- Culture
- December 11, 2021, 07:00
Streaming opens up new worlds to us but it’s hard not to feel something has been lost
- Culture
- December 4, 2021, 07:00
Writers and artists were keen to pay court when the politician was in his pomp
- TV, Radio, Web
- November 20, 2021, 07:00
Streaming service’s new top 10 lists offer some insight but should we really care?
- Art & Design
- November 13, 2021, 07:00
Why has the capital been so ill-served by its officials? A reprinted book may hold a clue
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 30, 2021, 07:00
From The Sopranos to Succession, good title sequences set the TV tone in a way little else can
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 23, 2021, 05:00
Netflix’s dystopian drama series shows originality can still trump franchise power
- Culture
- October 16, 2021, 00:06
The 92-year-old author on US foreign policy and Ireland’s immoral tax regime
- Culture
- October 9, 2021, 05:00
National Campaign for the Arts has a long Budget 2022 wishlist - it will be disappointed
- Culture
- October 2, 2021, 07:00
With two major new stage productions, and a Joel Coen film, it’s the Bard’s biggest hit
- Culture
- September 25, 2021, 06:00
The Constitution is clear: the country’s name is Éire in Irish or Ireland in English
- Visual Art
- September 25, 2021, 05:00
People like colourised photos but experts worry about tampering with history
- Culture
- September 18, 2021, 07:00
Catherine Martin should take note on why attempts to change licensing laws failed before
- TV, Radio, Web
- September 11, 2021, 07:00
Perhaps you shouldn't believe everything you've heard about disinformation
- Film
- September 4, 2021, 05:00
It’s not hard to draw a line from Armageddon to al-Qaeda to the Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Music
- September 2, 2021, 06:00
Musicians to return to the stage for the first time in 18 months as Ireland’s venues reopen
- Culture
- August 28, 2021, 07:00
More people can mix in a pub than are permitted to sit distanced in large venues
- TV, Radio, Web
- August 14, 2021, 07:00
Regulations on balance in current affairs can't reflect complexity of documentaries and dramas
- Stage
- August 14, 2021, 05:00
Festival director Willie White emphasises the positives as audiences return to theatres
- Stage
- August 11, 2021, 08:00
Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures
- Books
- August 7, 2021, 07:00
There’s a rich choice of creative writing courses, but precious few places to learn the basics
- Visual Art
- July 31, 2021, 07:00
Ideological narrowness of 30th anniversary line-up emphasises contradictions of museum
- Music
- July 24, 2021, 05:00
Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969 featured a line-up of hugely influential black artists
- Heritage
- July 17, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: There may be times when the lessons of the genocidal past are worth recalling, but not this time Mattie McGrath
- Culture
- July 10, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: Our conservative approach to pandemic challenges may increasingly cause issues
- Culture
- July 3, 2021, 06:00
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on why Biden can succeed where Obama did not
- Culture
- June 19, 2021, 07:00
A recent Iveagh Gardens gig looked nice but gave no data for returning to normality
- People
- June 19, 2021, 06:00
Grande Dame of DC Dowd to give insight to Biden’s America and the politics-obsessed town
- Film
- June 12, 2021, 07:00
If the producer is Irish, does that make it an Irish film?
- Books
- June 6, 2021, 06:00
The perception that 2020 was unprecedented is inaccurate, says Niall Ferguson
- Art & Design
- June 5, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: Watch out for Dublin Bus and its wince-making new colour scheme
- Film
- May 29, 2021, 07:00
A British director, an Irish cast and an African-American soundtrack – but it worked
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 22, 2021, 07:00
Print editions are still part of the industry’s survival – but who knows for how long
- Music
- May 15, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: Pilot events in UK are promising but will Government underwrite the risk?
- Stage
- May 8, 2021, 07:00
Does it matter whether online performances are recorded or live?
- Culture
- May 1, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: ITV’s political editor inadvertently raised a meaningful question about the North
- Culture
- April 24, 2021, 05:00
Hugh Linehan: The City Arts Centre was once a reservoir for the quirky, the creative, the insurgent
- Music
- April 17, 2021, 07:00
It seems like madness, but being in a Zoom choir with my work colleagues is quite uplifting
- Film
- April 10, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: Why should we classify DVDs and cinema releases but not Netflix?
- Culture
- April 3, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: Pandemic has helped highlight existing shifts in cultural production
- Culture
- March 27, 2021, 05:00
Perhaps the sacred and the secular are not as diametrically opposed as is often assumed
- TV, Radio, Web
- March 20, 2021, 07:00
Linking performance of articles to journalists’ salaries seems unfair, but it is not a new idea
- Film
- March 13, 2021, 07:00
Time to bid adieu, not au revoir, to the Looney Tunes character
- TV, Radio, Web
- March 7, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: The era of moguls has run its course; European conglomerates have arrived
- Film
- March 6, 2021, 13:40
Bryan Fogel discusses his ‘true-crime documentary’ The Dissident about the journalist
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 27, 2021, 07:00
Who is the ‘we’ that is invoked in lifestyle, entertainment and opinion pieces?
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 20, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: Suddenly, 2021 feels a lot like 2012 all over again
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 13, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: Outlets have been accused of excessive coverage and parroting the official line
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 6, 2021, 07:00
Films, books and television often get the future right, writes Hugh Linehan
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 23, 2021, 07:00
The new presenters’ life experiences are more in tune with those of listeners
- Film
- January 16, 2021, 07:00
Streaming giant Netflix has spent gazillions making movies, with little of quality to show for it
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 9, 2021, 07:00
Hugh Linehan: The New Year’s Eve rape joke was less satire than a failure of imagination
- Stage
- December 22, 2020, 12:31
Nominations for each categories in annual awards usually announced in early January
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 19, 2020, 07:00
It's all over bar the kicking and screaming, but who's going to make the spin-off?
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 12, 2020, 07:00
George Clooney’s In the Midnight Sky and Jamie Foxx’s turn in Soul will have us curling up together on the couch again
- Music
- November 28, 2020, 05:00
The continual threat of lockdown makes planning very difficult for the arts
- Culture
- November 21, 2020, 06:00
A report from the taskforce for the arts has a Christmas wish-list of recommendations
- TV, Radio, Web
- November 14, 2020, 05:00
The broadcaster tends towards mediocrity and self-satisfaction, not humour
- Culture
- October 31, 2020, 06:05
America at the Crossroads: The two presidential candidates have a combined age of 151
- Culture
- October 10, 2020, 05:00
This week, Cardi B annoyed Azerbaijan, and Jon Bon Jovi irked the Orange Order
- Culture
- October 3, 2020, 07:00
That is a nightmare for anyone trying to put on an event such as a festival
- TV, Radio, Web
- September 25, 2020, 05:45
Critics expect US president to hate actor’s take in The Comey Rule. But he did it anyway
- Culture
- September 19, 2020, 05:00
Next budget needs to include huge supports for a sector brought to its knees by Covid-19
- Culture
- September 5, 2020, 07:00
Everyone is listening to podcasts but their viability is threatened by lack of listener data
- Culture
- August 29, 2020, 07:00
The notion of a re-set world is thought-provoking. Change, good and bad, is coming
- Culture
- August 22, 2020, 05:00
Yet she appears not to have been fully involved in agreeing new restrictions on gatherings
- Culture
- August 15, 2020, 07:00
The phased timetable has outlived its usefulness, but the new approach has hazards
- Stage
- August 12, 2020, 09:00
DruidGregory begins a 15-venue tour at Coole Park, the writer’s Galway estate, next month
- Books
- August 8, 2020, 06:00
Does weak UK regulation allow influential think tanks to peddle the interests of anonymous donors?
- Culture
- August 8, 2020, 05:00
We should support Laura Whitmore’s freedom to appear on whatever podcast she pleases
- Culture
- August 4, 2020, 05:00
Despite Covid-19, key elements from the summer line-up are ready for an autumn showing
- Heritage
- August 1, 2020, 07:00
It would be regrettable if we found new reasons in the 21st century to destroy what’s left of old Dublin
- Culture
- July 25, 2020, 05:00
Right now, someone, somewhere is surely working on the first great work of Covid art
- TV, Radio, Web
- July 18, 2020, 07:00
It has often seemed as if company wanted to accelerate demise of print so it could become purely digital as soon as possible
- Culture
- June 27, 2020, 07:00
In the midst of a vast social, political and cultural experiment, we need all the data we can get
- Books
- June 24, 2020, 05:00
The writer Masha Gessen sees parallels between the US and Russia under Putin
- Culture
- June 20, 2020, 05:00
The recovery of the sector may take until 2025 if nothing is done to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19
- Culture
- June 19, 2020, 11:48
Expert advisory group urges Government to act immediately to avoid slow, four-year recovery
- Stage
- June 19, 2020, 09:30
Wexford Opera Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival also announce alternative events
- Culture
- June 6, 2020, 05:00
Issues around race and social justice are increasingly important in Ireland too
- Culture
- May 30, 2020, 05:00
As the country reopens, cultural events will be last to come back – if they come back at all
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 23, 2020, 05:00
Inevitably and rightly, the TV series is softer in tone than Sally Rooney’s novel
- Culture
- May 16, 2020, 07:00
A story about Philip Roth leering at ‘colleens’ in Dublin exposes a Neanderthal attitude
- Music
- May 11, 2020, 17:15
Refunds now available but ticket holders advised they can be retained for use in 2021